North Richmond Farm Update! Sunday was a bobcat/tractor training day for Urban Tilth Staff! Thanks to some locally sourced ingredients; wood chips, horse manure, and organic juice waste from Urban Remedy, we have begun rolling out our compost program / windrows at the North Richmond Farm! These windrows will be turned and cooked for the […]
Students now have access to the garden through our after school program once a week We’re growing more flowers More veggies getting rooted and ready to come up in spring & of course, we still have monarchs around
VERMICOMPOSTING! Chris, the worm whisperer, helped us build a worm bin for vermicompost and worm castings at NRF, so that we can transfer all the rich nutrients into the beds for better produce. He works with farms all over the area and we were grateful to be one of those farms! Thank you Chris! More […]
Quick watershed update: This week, we welcomed our newest member Robin to the Watershed crew! Robin is our new co-manager. She graduated from Texas State University with a Geography Watershed Resources Degree. We are so excited for all the knowledge Robin will bring to our crew! Enjoy some pictures of an Egret (that we spotted […]
Please join Idle No More SF Bay and Urban Tilth for a car caravan at 10 am on Tuesday, January 26th. As part of a large national indigenous-led coalition #BuildBackFossilFree, we are focusing on the need to transition Chevron quickly away from fossil fuels to safe, renewable energy and safe jobs, and highlighting two organizations […]
Care Is on the Menu Richmond’s Urban Tilth feeds even more in a time of need By Janis Hashe Talk about stepping up to the plate. Richmond’s Urban Tilth, already a major local player in fighting the health effects of food deserts, has stepped up to the breakfast, lunch and dinner plates of underserved communities during […]
We are partnering with the Center for Land-Based Learning, by providing on-the-job training hours to 5 Urban Tilth staff members who have entered into this 2 year Farm Manager Training Program. We will be hosting trainings and work experiences for these staff in specific areas of farm management including irrigation, integrative pest management, soil management, […]
Watershed crew is super excited for what 2021 has in store! The crew has been busy making action plans so that we can reach our 2021 goals! With Jonah’s leadership, we have started on our propagation goals and look how beautiful our gray rush looks! A very sturdy native plant that is drought tolerant, used […]
Starting the New Year Off with New Pathways Yesterday at the North Richmond Farm, we added gypsum to pathways to help with drainage and to prevent clay and puddles from forming. We’ve been working on the soil so that it’s less clay and more receptive to the rainfall. And we added mulch on top of […]
The Greenway Team, 2020 2020 Highlights include Free Lunch Program Fruit Tree Giveaway Free Food Farm Stand Halloween Land Event Pollinator Planting Unity Bash w Rich City Rides The Greenway Team also had 312.17 pounds of produce harvested for community & 139.35 cubic yards of trash cleaned up from the Greenway garden and Edible […]
